For a beginning teacher, I believe organization, respect and high expectations for your students is a great way to set the mood of your classroom. Your strong approach shows students that you not only care about your teaching, but you take all of the students seriously. It shows that you are ready to start the year and forces students to act maturely in the classroom. For example, I like the idea of putting a goal on the board everyday and giving students a daily outline so they can be prepared and expect certain activities in the classroom. If a teacher makes the extra effort to help students know what is going on in the classroom, it shows them that you respect them and want them to know what is going on in class. If you make classroom rules and your standards have already reveled that misbehavior is unacceptable, you are more likely to gain respect from your misbehaving students by showing that you have already told them about this and you actually want to get down to the nitty gritty and show them something great about science. I believe in standing outside of the classroom while students walk in and other ways of making an effort to get to know your students because it shows that you have an interest in them, which is a form of respect.
Teachers set the tone of their class. By being educated and up to date in scientific current events I hope my students will begin to see that these things are important and they are part of not just the media or the newspaper's life but our own lives as well. It is their education that will lead them in the future. By caring about current events, it will hopefully get them thinking about how much of an integral part of society these kids actually are. Requiring students to think is a must and it can be easily embraced through social involvement within the class, such as discussions on current events. Some students don't realize how much their own thoughts matter. It is a teacher's job to tell them that they are the future. Why have students wait until they are older to start making decisions when teachers can be expose their students to this idea while they are growing and developing essential parts of themselves. This can be done by giving students information about the world and then asking them to make sense of it and talk about what they think. By encouraging their line of thinking, it encourages the students to embrace their own ideas and by questioning them in a discussion setting, it gets them to think about whether their choices and thoughts are the right ones. One day I hope to incorporate students in community involvement to convey this further.
I do not believe students learn by hearing a teacher voice information. It must be applied by the student in order for them to gain understanding of the material. If the teacher uses real-life examples to show students the "big picture" and then gives the content material, students are more likely to be receptive to the information. By showing your own interest in the material and then giving students many tools that they can manipulate the information with, students can learn while having teacher scaffolding support them. If students are lead to see the beauty of nature first, they will be more likely to embrace and find wonder in a scientific concept.
Teachers set the tone of their class. By being educated and up to date in scientific current events I hope my students will begin to see that these things are important and they are part of not just the media or the newspaper's life but our own lives as well. It is their education that will lead them in the future. By caring about current events, it will hopefully get them thinking about how much of an integral part of society these kids actually are. Requiring students to think is a must and it can be easily embraced through social involvement within the class, such as discussions on current events. Some students don't realize how much their own thoughts matter. It is a teacher's job to tell them that they are the future. Why have students wait until they are older to start making decisions when teachers can be expose their students to this idea while they are growing and developing essential parts of themselves. This can be done by giving students information about the world and then asking them to make sense of it and talk about what they think. By encouraging their line of thinking, it encourages the students to embrace their own ideas and by questioning them in a discussion setting, it gets them to think about whether their choices and thoughts are the right ones. One day I hope to incorporate students in community involvement to convey this further.
I do not believe students learn by hearing a teacher voice information. It must be applied by the student in order for them to gain understanding of the material. If the teacher uses real-life examples to show students the "big picture" and then gives the content material, students are more likely to be receptive to the information. By showing your own interest in the material and then giving students many tools that they can manipulate the information with, students can learn while having teacher scaffolding support them. If students are lead to see the beauty of nature first, they will be more likely to embrace and find wonder in a scientific concept.